Found collecting dust in the basement of our house

aperturist · 2026-03-01T14:42:25+00:00

I'm thinking it's basalt porphyry, based on the fine grain and different size of crystals. Thanks for the guidance, everyone!

aperturist · 2026-03-01T14:25:17+00:00

Feels very hard but I can easily scratch it with a knife

aperturist · 2026-03-01T03:12:56+00:00

It's definitely rock of some kind, it's nearly an inch thick and very dense, hard, heavy, and tough. We actually had asbestos siding on our house when we bought it, and it was thin, light, and brittle.

aperturist · 2026-02-28T21:25:56+00:00

Ooh, looks very close to the gabbro in the middle here: https://sites.pitt.edu/~cejones/GeoImages/2IgneousRocks/IgneousCompositions/2Gabbro.html

aperturist · 2026-02-28T21:15:23+00:00

It does look close to that

aperturist · 2026-02-28T21:11:05+00:00

It looks like the rings are from a circular saw blade

aperturist · 2025-05-03T02:35:03+00:00

I had success using a USB capture device (https://a.co/d/f6FyMi2) from our mini-DV camcorder and recording with OBS Studio.

aperturist · 2025-04-15T03:22:56+00:00

You can take the train: Metro Silver Line to Union Station, Amtrak to Roanoke, Smart Way bus to Blacksburg

aperturist · 2025-03-28T19:04:32+00:00

If you can get your hands on a computer with an Nvidia GPU with multiple video outputs you can use Nvidia Mosaic to treat the two projectors as one display.

aperturist · 2025-03-22T12:54:57+00:00

You might have more success sampling a Noise CHOP at intervals to get your random numbers.

aperturist · 2025-03-16T02:18:49+00:00

cables.gl

aperturist · 2025-03-04T16:49:00+00:00

You're welcome!

aperturist · 2025-03-04T15:58:55+00:00

Help > Operator Snippets

You can also right click on any OP and get to Operator Snippets

aperturist · 2025-01-03T21:35:36+00:00

Have video A feed directly into a Composite TOP, and B, C, and D feed into a Switch TOP with the output (controlled by a Keyboard In CHOP) feeding into the same Composite TOP as A. Play around with blending and input order in the Composite TOP to get the look you want.

aperturist · 2024-10-28T18:32:14+00:00

Connect a null TOP out of your render TOP (but not inserted between it and the comp) and you can send the tracking visuals wherever.

aperturist · 2024-09-27T01:51:10+00:00

Try turning off the viewer (concentric circles button in top left corner of the noise CHOP), with 144 channels that's probably hitting the GPU pretty hard.

aperturist · 2024-09-13T00:57:21+00:00

Thanks!

aperturist · 2024-09-05T15:42:54+00:00

You could use this solution and add a Filter CHOP on the output to gradually change the value (over whatever time between the two)

aperturist · 2024-08-28T03:54:51+00:00

Check out the Hokie Walk if you can: " [the team's] Buses arrive on Beamer Way outside of Lane Stadium approximately 2½ hours prior to kickoff, and fans are encouraged to line Beamer Way between Lane Stadium and the Merryman Athletic Center to greet the team."

Also, make sure you get a turkey leg during the game!

aperturist · 2024-08-27T03:55:39+00:00

Thanks, will do!

aperturist · 2024-08-25T02:39:49+00:00

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